Ticket-holder.



l. S. DOWNING.

TICKET HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2I, 1912.

1,137,846. Patented May 4, 1915.

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IRA SHANNON DOWNING-OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CURTAIN SUPPLYCOMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TICKET-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May t, 1915.

Application filed September 21, 1912. Serial No. 721,706.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IRA SHANNON DOWN- ING, acitizen of the United States, residing at .Cleveland, in the county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ticket- Holders, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to ticket holders, and refers particularly toticket holders used in connection with curtains for railway cars.

It is the object of my invention to provide a ticket holder which shallbe efficient in operation, readily accessible to the passenger andticket collector, while at the same time it shall be in such positionthat the ticket is not liable to be displaced when passengers enter orleave the car seats. In carrying out the invention, it is proposed tomount the ticket holder on the curtain, and in order that the curtainmay not be unbalanced by the presence of the holder, and also in orderthat there may be a satisfactory support for the holder, it is mountedon the cover plate or escutcheon plate commonly provided at the middleof the bottom portion of the curtain and through which project thehandles or finger pieces of the endwise movable rods that frictionallyengage the sides of the window frame to hold the curtain at any desiredelevation. These and other advantages of my invention will be morereadily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which showa preferred embodiment of my improvements, and in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of a portion of the inside of a car, showing my improvedticket holder applied to a curtain; Fig. 2 is atransverse verticalsection through a portion of the curtain showing my ticket holderapplied to the cover plate used in connection with the locking mechanismof the curtain; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of a portionof the curtain showing my ticket holder applied thereto.

The curtain 10, of the usual and well known construction, is suppliedwith looking rods controlled by the handles 11, which project throughsuitable apertures in the cover plate 12. The cover plate 12 has avertical extension 13 parallel to the curtain 10. The spring holder 1%is applied at its ends to the cover plate 12, and is held in position bymeans of the screws or rivets 15. The spring 14, as clearly shown inFigs. 1 and 3, follows the outline of the extension 13.

As clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a ticket 16 may be held in positionbetween the extension 13 and the spring 14, and if desired the ticketmay be held between the extension 13 and the curtain 10.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that the presentinvention is in the nature of an article of manufacture de signedexclusively for use in connection with the curtains of railway cars, oneelement of the holder being the ordinary escutcheon plate, in which nochange is made except that it is provided with an integral upstandingextension along its upper edge. The extension of the escutcheon plate incooperation with the curtain constitutes a ticket holder, and saidescutcheon plate also provides a rigid and durable support or foundationfor the spring clip which cooperates with the extension to grip a ticketbetween said members.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that considerable changecould be made in the detailed construction of my ticket holder withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of my invention.

YVhat I claim is:

1. A. new article of manufacture, an escutcheon plate for railway carcurtains, said plate being bowed transversely and provided with anintegral upstanding extension rising from the upper edge of the curvedbowed portion throughout the length thereof, said extension constitutingthe back of a ticket holder, and an inverted substantially 'U-shapedspring clip having its upper portion lying in front of and in closeproximity to the extension, the lower portions of the legs of the clipbeing shaped to conform to the convex face of the escutcheon plate andsecured thereto.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an escutcheon plate provided withmeans for attachment to an object, said plate being the legs of the Webbeing arranged to cenfurther provided with an upstanding eXtenform toand being secured to the face of the sion rising from its upper edgethroughout escutcheon plate.

the length thereof, and an inverted substan- IRA SHANNON DOWN IN G.tially U-shuped spring Web having its upper Witnesses:

portion lying in front of and in close prox- F. W. BAY,-

irnity t0 the extension, the lower portion of W. D. MOONEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe ."Gommissioner of Patents Washington, D. G.

